The shots probably are from Crow hunters...the season is open until
March 29. The days allowed are Tuesday, through Saturday.
Quoting John Marshall <johnmarshall47 at gmail.com>:
> In Stratford at Long Beach an Eared Grebe was swimming and feeding
> with Goldeneye of the end of the first jetty south of the parking
> lot until hunters in the marsh fired 3 quick shots which spooked all
> the birds which flew farther off shore. I was unable to relocate the
> grebe. There is also a Snowy Owl in the marsh.
>> John Marshall
> Watertown
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